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Random numbers programme does anyone know one?

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AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 21 Jul 2005 15:53

Bob, would you believe - Golf??? Ann

Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 21 Jul 2005 00:34

Reminds me of when we were trying to program a random number generator, in BASIC, the series although random, each time you ran the program it generated exactly the same series of numbers.........BUT if you added Randomize into the program listing, it started each set of numbers from a different place in the list, so they were effectively, truly random. Bob( it was for a morse code teaching prog) 0-90? sounds like a bingo prog.......LOL

Christine in Herts

Christine in Herts Report 20 Jul 2005 23:26

If you've got Excel, one of the functions in that generates random numbers. =RAND() It supplies numbers between 0 & 1 If that's not big enough just multiply it up by what you want your max to be. If 90 is your max then: =RAND()*90 will give you the random numbers you want. They change every time you change the sheet: a new entry, a Save, whatever. Christine

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 20 Jul 2005 20:32

tony says thank you, it looks like either will work but www. random is best. Ann glos

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 20 Jul 2005 20:03

thank you I'll give those to him. Ann Glos

Elizabeth

Elizabeth Report 20 Jul 2005 19:12

You can try this one. You put in the start and finish numbers you want to select from. www.random.org Lizzie

Phoenix

Phoenix Report 20 Jul 2005 18:59

Got this by Googling. No guarantees how good it is! http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~raulin/random.html

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 20 Jul 2005 18:44

Does anyone know of a programme that will randomly select numbers between one and 90 please. this request for husband. Ann Glos